RM> I'm not a good source for info on that. The first 2 times
RM> I drank probably before I turned 17, the first time I
RM> drank 8 beer but didn't like the hangover much..

AA>Well.. the beer is not to blame, but the qty intake. Yes.. it's
  >easy to have too much which leads to undesirable hangovers and
  >sickness.

Beer didn't like me, and when I turned to hard stuff I eventually
figured out it was the mixer (sugar content?) that gave me a
hangover. Once I started drinking it straight I didn't have near
the problems the next morning. For some reason I've always had
a very high tolerance for alcohol intake. Considering I could
count the times I got drunk in my life on my fingers, with a few
fingers left over, it just always took a lot to really get drunk.
Plus I've always been 'light' so it wasn't body mass soaking it up.
At my heaviest I weighed about 70 kg (155 lbs). Less these days.

AA>I had an episode like that too: I won a 40oz bottle
  >of Baccardi rum at university, and that means "floor party!" at
  >residence.  The girls mixed and served the drinks.  I ended up
  >having way too much that night - and threw up at some point -
  >first time ever. It was very embarassing.  I couldn't walk
  >without help.

Ha.. I remember one night driving home about 28km (16 miles)
and actually driving under the speed limit because I knew I
was way too drunk to be driving, but it was late at night with
almost no traffic in an area with few police.
I was still living in may parents home at the time and ended
up crawling down the hall to my bedroom so I wouldn't wake
them up bouncing off the walls..

It reminds me of an old joke where a cop stops a drunk driver
and asks why he was driving in that condition, and he replies,
'Well, I couldn't walk!"..    B)

RM> and wound up wedged under their back bumper with most of
RM> the palm of my right hand missing and a shattered kneecap....

AA>That's quite a tale.  I suppose you have the missing part of
  >your palm as a constant reminder?

Actually, the damage was so extensive that the whole area grew
back without a scar. It was wide and painful, but not super deep.
But it got pretty infected shortly after and I ended up going to
a doctor 3 or 4 days later who couldn't believe I hadn't gone to
the hospital when it happened. At that point, I had the fun of
having it debrided and he gave me a 50/50 chance of keeping my hand.

AA>I may only drink in social settings now. I would nurse a beer
  >as long as possible.  3 is my max before I begin to get light-
  >headed.  That's the signal to stop, and not amplify that
  >floating feeling.

But that light headedness is the whole point of drinking...   B)

No, as I said I gave up drinking before I was even old enough
to drink legally and I don't drink socially at all. Every now
and then you get forced to have a toast at a wedding or something
but I think I've only gotten good and drunk once since I was 17.

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